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Sunday, February 5, 2017

#Squaduary - Dark Angels 10th Company: Reinforcements en Route

This month, Dhrakk will be putting together two boxes of scouts, and a made-to-order Veteran Sergeant Naaman for his #Squaduary challenge.

Greetings readers! I am Dhrakk, a long-time friend of Spoticus. He's encouraged me to take the #Squaduary miniature challenge.

I have taken the this opportunity to fill in some gaps I have in my army composition. For those who are unfamiliar with the Dark Angels codex, our primary detachment 'Lion's Blade Strike Force' must include a minimum of one Auxiliary choice. The cheapest (points-wise) tax available is the 10th Company Support, in which 1-5 Scout units can be taken.

The plan for #Squaduary was to complete:

10 scouts (9 bolters, 1 sergeant)

10 scouts (9 sniper rifles, 1 sergeant)

1 special (dead) character - Veteran Sergeant Naaman.

Note: Due to a back-order problem, I may only have the first 10 scouts & Naaman completed by the end of the first week.

This is Veteran Sergeant Naaman, in all his awful metal glory. However, I've made a conversion. I tend to play WYSIWYG as much and whenever possible; and scout sergeants can't take auspicesTIL plural of auspex (also, I lost the bit for it). The bits for this conversion are:

Veteran Sergeant Naaman body

Scout CCW upper arm & wrist

Left-handed bolt pistol from Ravenwing Command sprue.

Games-Workshop only puts 4 bolters in its Scout sprue. This might not be a problem for most people, as there's generally 1 sergeant per 5 scouts, but I've already got Naaman as my sergeant!

Because conversions are fun (and I have a lot of Space Marine bits) I've come up with this. Bolters on scouts have slightly different hands on the trigger from Space Marine bolters. I wanted a bolter that might distract the eyes from this. The Space Marine Sternguard bolters not only somewhat obscure the hands, but also have a shoulder strap to match the rest of the squad!

All in all, I very much look forward to painting these models over the next month.

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